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RPI had this, too, and I remember taking full advantage of it oh so long ago.
by RHSeeger 6y ago
RPI had this, too, and I remember taking full advantage of it oh so long ago.
- hnzix 6y agoIn the late 90s Oz universities generally gave their students email via Pine plus a 10mb web folder as standard. Many STEM students made random websites about their hobbies or poetry or whatever. It was like a proto Geocities.
- throwphoton 6y agoAnd once you did that, your content was on the "World Wide Web", not just some "Gopher server". The WWW name made the venue sound more intriguing.
- timClicks 6y agoI was pretty jealous of that over here in NZ.
- akie 6y agoOh god, pine - I completely forgot about that. Thank you for bringing it up!